The Raven

     The Raven is dark poem written by Edgar Allen Poe and the poem's name itself is already scary since Ravens are the color black. The poem fits in the idea of Gothic poetry because of the setting, which takes place in December, during winter at midnight and in a palace. In the poem, someone is knocking on the door, but when he opens no one is there. The second time he is trying to relax himself by saying it is the wind hitting the window and this is building up tension. It is also very Gothic because Edgar Allen Poe mentions a woman named Lenore, who is assumed to have died violently. Throughout the poem, he realizes that there is a raven outside the door and he thinks that it is saying "nevermore". At first he thinks that it will leave because everybody else and even hope has left him, but it still stayed. After, he links the raven to Lenore and he feels that there is someone with him. This is also considered to be supernatural and since he is talking to the raven, this shows psychological torment after Lenore died. The raven is associated with something bad and because it is not leaving, he will always remember how she died and he will never be able to move on.